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The coalition of Arab states – supported by the UK and US – are fighting Houthi rebels backed by Iran, who ousted president Hadi.

The air raid on the camp on March 30, 2015, killed at least 29 civilians and wounded 41 people including 14 children and 11 women, according to Human Rights Watch.

Bombs hit a medical facility, a local market and a bridge, according to the World Health Organization.

Naif, 17, witnessed the attack. He said: “I lived in Haradh and worked in Al-Mazraq IDP (Internally Displaced Person) camp. Airstrikes targeted the camp when I was on my way home. I saw lots of dead people, cut bodies and terrible scenes.”

People gather among the rubble of a Sufi mosque (Image: REUTERS)

Naif now visits a refugee camp called Bani Hasan where he receives psychological support from Save the Children. He said many people have been killed in their homes and that regular airstrikes take place near refugee camps.

The teenager was recruited as a child soldier by an armed militia and suffers constant pain due to shrapnel lodged in his neck.

Naif added: “I worked as a waiter in a restaurant before it closed because of the war and airstrikes. After losing my job and failing to find another, I had little option but to join an armed group.

“I was sent to Washha district for security training for three weeks before manning a checkpoint.

“While at the checkpoint, I was injured by a hand grenade thrown at me by someone on a motorbike. I was taken to hospital in Hairan.

“I was badly injured and bleeding a lot. Although the doctors stopped the bleeding, they could not remove shrapnel from my neck.

“I was referred to Hajja hospital where I spent a week before being informed by doctors that the surgical procedure to remove the shrapnel from my neck was too dangerous as the arteries would be badly affected – and I could possibly die.”

This mosque was destroyed during fighting (Image: REUTERS)

Naif was then moved to Hodeida but doctors there said they could not help him. He added: “In the end, I gave up and returned to Bani Hasan IDP camp. Despite my injuries, I was willing to go back to the armed group but my father prevented me.

“Once my father changes his mind, I will go back because I will not be deployed in the frontline of the war and, despite my experience, checkpoints are safer. Many kids my age and younger are serving in armed groups in the north.

“My main reasons for joining the group were a lack of employment opportunities, oppression and the deaths that have happened in my country because of airstrikes.

“Fighting and airstrikes are familiar to me. I hate my life and I have no other wish but to get the shrapnel removed from my neck. Life is unbearable and war needs to stop.”

Another refugee child called Saeed, 13, had to leave his home in Aden. He said: “When I hear the aircraft, I don’t feel safe at school and want to run away to my home.

“I used to have many friends in Aden but now I have just a few who are from different governorates and, like me, have lost their homes and schools and continue to suffer.”

Speaking to the Sunday Mail from Sana’a, Grant Pritchard, of Save the Children, said the situation for millions of Yemeni children is dire.

He added: “There are around eight million children who don’t have enough food to eat. Some 1.3million children are malnourished.

“In some areas, basic services are non-existent or under severe strain. Some three-and-a-half million children have had their education disrupted or stopped and around seven million children have no access to healthcare.”